Target apparatus.



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JOHN L. MGOULLOUGH, on NEW 'YoRK, N.'Y., ASSIGNOR TO AUTOMATIC TARGET ncnmn 00.. OF NEW YORK, N. Y.-

TARGET. APARATUs.

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T aZZ whom it may concern! plemountecl on a joint which permits it tobe aimed at a target and wherein on pulling the trigger the point aimed at on the target will be in some manner indicated'automaticallythereon. A device of this general'charactor is shown in the United States-Patent No. 708,245, granted to me September 2, 1902,

and also in my pending application, Ser ialf- No. 179,892. r l 1 The objectof the present invention is in the main to provide the apparatus with means for furnishing the marksman, should heso elect, with a record of his shots on a souvenir which he may take away with him that is to say, as the device is herein shown the apparatus is provided with a coin or check controlled apparatus, and the marksman may merely place a coin in the slot to connect the operating-lever, press down the lever so as to cook the pistol, aim the latter, and pull the trigger, when the point he aimed at will appear on the target, or if he desires to take five shots and get a record-souvenir of his shots he may after. putting his first coin in the slot and cocking the pistol operate the knob of the record device "by hand so far as j to feed forward a strip of record material say of aluminium with miniature targets marked at uniform intervals thereonto the f proper extent to place a miniature target in; place to receive the proper'markings, and this plate will remain in position until he has fired I I five shots, when it will be'aut off from the strip and W a slot. The miniature t'ar will then show five markings,;'

employed one form ofsuchmechanism has f been illustrated herein and will bebriefiy d.e-

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omatically cut out through I n-the' "souvenir v indicating the 1 positions on the'target of the five shots made. The present inventiondoes not include the, particular coin-controlledmechanism shown, .nor-is it limited thereto; but as some form of coin or check controlled mechanism Will be" Patented. Sept." 26, 1905.

I scribed in order to make clear the working of the other features of the apparatus. In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate an embodiment of the invention, Figure 1.is a sideielevationof the target apparatus on a'small' scale. Fig. 2 is a vertical axial section of the end of the apparatus where the I firearm is mounted. Fig. 2 is a detached perspective view of the rocker seen in Fig. 2. :Fig. 3'is aview similar to Fig. 2 of. the end of the apparatus where the target is situated,

. and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the mechanism 6 5 seem, at the bottom of the target-casing in Fig. Fig. 4 is an end view from the left in Fig. 2 with a part of the casing broken away to show the interior.v Fig. 5 is a vertical section taken'at m in Fig. 3,.showing a face view of the target. Fig. 6 is an enlarged face view of the record device with the parts in whatrnay be called the normal position, and Fig. 7 is a similar view showing the parts in the position they assume when the ap'paratu s is ready for inaking the fifth or final shot. Fig. 8 is a cross-section of a part of the casing substantially at line 510 in Fig. 6, showing the record device in edge elevation. Fig. 9 is a plan-view of the spr0cket-drum which feedsthe strip of record material and of'a part of'said strip thereon. Fig. 10 is a plan view of shears for cutting off the record souvenir, from the strip. Fig. 11 shows one oft'he record-souvenirs.

As the deviceor apparatus is herein shown as adapted for short-range firing with a pistol or with a firearm simulating a pistol, the firea'rmwill be herein referred to asa pistol but it' will be understood the improvements in which the present invention resides is not necessarily limited toany extent of range n'or' to any particular kind of firearm. l designates any suitable form of casing, hollow base, or supporting frame for the mechanism. Atone end of thiscasingis the elevated target-casing 2. (Seen best in Figs. 3 and 5.) In the front of the casing 2' is the target 3, and at the other end of the main -casing 1- is supported the pistol 4: on a universally-mounted hollow standard 5, as best seen'in Figs. 2 and 4., The casing'l may be, if desired," moun ted on supporting"- legs 6, Fig. 1, andthe' lengthof thec'asingl will be such as 'to permit 2 thetargetto be. placed at the desired distance fromt'hefirear IOU The standard 5, which carries the firearm, is mounted on pivots 7, (see Figs. 2 and 1,) so that it may be rocked, the pivots being set in a hollow turn-table 8, rotatable about its vertical axis in a support 9 on the casing, being furnished with ball-bearings, so that it may rotate readily. This universal mounting of the standard provides for all the movements necessary in aiming the pistol, the pivotal mounting providing the up-and-down or vertical play and the turn-table providing the desired horizontal play.

Within the hollow of the pistol-frame is rotatively mounted on a horizontal axis a disk 10, Fig. 2, having in its periphery a retaining-notch 11 capable of being engaged by a dog or pawl formed on the spring-trigger 12. A setting-rod 13 is coupled to the disk 10 at 14: and extends down through the hollow standard 5 and turn-table 8. Mountedin the casing is an elbow rocker or lever 16, (seen detached in Fig. 2,) which turns about a fulcrum-point 15, Fig. 2. This device is in the nature of two elbow-levers connected at the fulcrum by a sleeve, and it has two upright and two horizontal arms. One horizontal arm 16 is coupled to the setting-rod 13 and the other, 16 to the upper end of a strong spring 17. One of the upright arms 16 is coupled to a rod 18, which extends back through the casing 1 to the target end thereof. The functions of this red will be hereinafter explained.

Extending rigidly from the pistol-standard 5 to the other end of the casing where the target is situated is a marker-arm 19. This armcarries at its end a thin marker-disk 20, on which is the marker m. This latter may be a small round black spot on a white ground, and it simulates a bullet-hole in the target.

It may be explained here that the marker on is so disposed with reference to the axis of the pistol and the center of the target that the pistol isalways aimed at the marker and that when the pistol is aimed, for example, at the bulls-eye of the target the marker we will be directly behind the bulls-eye. The target will be of some suitable transparent materialas glass, for exampleand have the usual rings and markings thereon, as seen in Fig. 5. The marker-disk, preferably white, is designed to move about in the space back of and near the target, and by preference it will be of sheet metaland be secured to the marker-arm 19 through the medium of an upright rod 19. In the. casing 1, near the target-casing, is mounted a limiting-ring 21, Figs. 3 and 5, through which the arm 19 extends, and this ring serves to limit the movements of the pistol in aiming. The arm 19 may have on it at the point where it passes through the ring 21 a cushion 22 of some soft material to deaden the sound when the arm strikes the ring.

So far as has been described it will be noted that the marker m would be always visible through the transparent target and the person aiming the pistol would see it moving as he moved the pistol. This would destroy the illusion, and to conceal the marker a screen is employed, as will now be described.

Mounted slidably in guides on the front of the target-casing, and disposed between the target and the marker-disk is a thin opaque screen 23, preferably of sheet metal, painted white. This screen and its guides 23 are seen in dotted lines in Fig. 5. It is coupled b 1 a link 24 Fi 3, to a rockin arm 25 pivotally mounted at 26 in the casing and provided with a spring 27 to shift it suddenly. 28 28 are two cushioned limiting-stops between which the rocking arm 25 may play. This arm 25 is moved by means now to be described.

On the pivot 26 rocks an elbow-lever 29, one arm of which is coupled to the end of the spring 27, whereby when said lever is rocked this end of the spring is carried to the other side of the pivotal center 26 and being under tension shifts the arm 25 suddenly to its other position, and thus shifts the screen If the screen be down, as in Fig. 3, it moves it up, so as to screen the marker-disk 20, and if it be up it moves it down, so as to disclose the marker on on the disk through the transparent target. The movement is so rapid that the eye of the marksman does not detect it.

To actuate the lever 29, one of its arms is slotted, and the slot therein is engaged by a pin 30 in an arm 31 on a sleeve or boss 32, which turns about a pivot 33 near the base of the casing, Fig. 3, and another arm 3 1 on said boss is coupled to the screen-actuating rod 18, before mentioned. This rod 18 is actuated through the rocker 16.

The above mechanism is very similar in some respects to that shown in m y said pending application, and the operation is as follows: The operator or marksman drops a coin or check in the coin-slot s, Fig. 2, and it passes down a coin-chute 35 to a position a. An operating-lever 36 is then depressed, when a slidable hook 37, mounted in the lever 36, rises and engages a cross-bar 38 in the arm 16 of the rocker 16, thus rocking the latter. This has the effect to operate the setting-rod 13 and cock the pistol and also to operate the screen-rod 18 to move the screen 23 upward between the marker-disk and thetargct. The marksman now aims the pistol at the target and pulls the trigger. This instantly releases the setting-rod and allows the spring 17 to suddenly return the rocker 16 to its lirst or normal position, the effect of which is to cause the screen 23 to suddenly descend and disclose the marker m on the target in the position aimed at; but other effects are produced by the above operations, and the means for producing them will now be explained. When the marksman pulls the trigger or fires the pistol, it is desirable that a sharp be elevated when the pistol is cocked and to be set free when the pistol is fired, the hammer striking the plate 39 a sharp blow. The

hammer is a lever fulcrumed at 41, and its couples it to an arm 43 on the sleeve 32. The pin 42 has a slotted connection with the arm 43. When a shot has been fired and the marker an exposed, it is obvious that any one may shift the pistol, as in aiming, and thus cause the marker to move visibly over the target, and to prevent this a brake device is employed to lock or secure the marker-disk in position until the brake is released by the cooking of the pistol forthe next shot. This device comprises,'as herein shown, Figs. 3 and 3, a guide 44:, secured in the casingback of the target, a brake-disk 45, the stem of which plays in said guide, atoggle device 46 7 back of the disk 45 and adapted to press the latter up to the marker-diskandhold the latter against movement, and a rod a7, coupled at its upper end to the knuckle of the toggle device and at its lower end, to an arm 48 on 52, rotatively mounted in the casing and down the sleeve or boss 32. When the screen 23 is down, the toggle holds and prevents movement of the marker-disk, and when the said screen moves up the rod 47 also moves up and releases the brake. The movement of the brake-disk is very slight. It may be stated here that a brake similar to this is shown in my pending application.

get having beendescribed, the mechanism whereby the marksman may obtain a souve-' nir or miniature target showing the results of five shots will now be described, with especial I reference to Figs. 2, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11.

On the rocker 16 is an arm 16 Fig. 2, from which extends an operating-rod 49, which serves to operate the souvenir device, as will be explained. On a drum 50 of any kind mounted rotatively in the casing is wound a strip of metal S, consisting of a series of souvenirs A, one of which is seen detached in Fig. 11 and several connected in Fig. 9. The

strip has in its edges notches n at the points of junction of the souvenirs and has on it a miniature target 25. Thestrip Sis fed through a guide 51 to and over a sprocket feed-wheel between the blades 53 and 53 of a pair of shears, (seen. in plan-in Fig. 10,) where the. souvenir at the end of the strip takes a posi: ti-onin front of a fixedblock 54. The teeth tated feed-wheel,

four teeth in the wheel.

on the wheel 52 engage the notches n in the edges of the'strip S, and the'strip is fed forward to the extent of one souvenir by a knob 55, Fig. 8', on the projecting end of the j0ur nal of the wheel 52. If the marksman desires to take five shots and get a souvenir, he

,drops a coin in the slot and depresses the I of one souvenir and no more. rear and shorter arm has a pin 42, which It will now be necessary to explain the mechanism connected with the souvenir de' vice,v particularly with reference to Fig. 6. In the periphery of the feed-wheel. 52 are equally-spaced notches 56,- adapted to be engaged by a locking pawl or dog 57, which has a'short arm 57 and a spring 58. When this dog is moved out of engagement, the.

wheel may be rotated until the dog drops into the next notch. A cam-lever 59, fulcrumed at 60, has a rounded upper end or head which bears on a cam-surface on the wheel 52, said surface having in it equally-spaced depressions 61. This cam-lever hasa spring 62, which holds its head up to the feed-wheel, and at its lower end a yielding spring-shoul der 63, which takes under a stud64 in'the end of an elbow-shaped supporting-arm 65,

pivotally mounted at 66.- Oarriedby the operating-rod49 (from the rocker 16) is a pawl 67, provided with a suitable spring 68 and supported or upheld under certain conditions by the arm 65. 1 Let us now suppose that the marksman has deposited his first coin and proceeded to cock the pistol. In doing this the rocker 16 moves the'rod 4:9 (to the right in Fig. 6) and causes the pawl 67 to glide over and along the arm 65, impinge on the pendent arm of the dog 57, and by rocking the latter disengage its nose'from the notch in the feed-wheel. The wheel may now be turned by its knob; but this brings a cam-recess 61 therein under the head of cam-lever 5'9,- and the latter will be so rocked by its spring as to withdraw the spring-shoulder 63'from under the gravity supporting arin 65, which falls, and this allows the spring of the pawl 67 to throw the latter down clearof the dog 57 and permits the dog to engage the next notch in the ro- When the pawl 67 falls, its nose drops into engagement with aratchetwheel 69, rotatively mounted on the frame and provided with a back-stop pawl 70. It

maybe explained that this ratchet-wheel 69.

has twelve teeth and three laterally-projecting studs 71, each of which corresponds to As this wheel is the &

between adjacent studs. The marking of the shots on the small targett on the souvenir A is efiected by a point 72, carried bya springarm 73, secured through a collar 74 to the marker-arm 19. This point plays about, over, and near to the souvenir while the pistol is being aimed, and when the trigger is pulled and the rod 19 drawn back suddenly it acts through a pendent arm 75 and a couplingstud 76 to throw forward a sliding bolt 77, which impinges forcibly on the spring-arm 73 and causes the point 72 to indent the souvenir-target at the proper point. The connection of the bolt 77 with the arm 75 is slotted, and a spring 78 is provided to withdraw the bolt a little when the momentum of the bolt shall have been destroyed. This frees the indenting-point from the souvenir. The marksman now drops another coin in the slot and again cocks the pistol; but as the pawl 67 is now in engagement with the ratchet-wheel 69 and below the plane of the dog 57 the feedwheel 52 will remain locked, but the pawl 67 will advance the wheel 69 one tooth and carry the lateral studs 71 therein forward to a corresponding extent. This takes place at each shot up to the fifth. By that time a stud 71 will have been carried forward to the position seen in Fig. 7 that is to say, far enough to impinge upon and depress one arm of a lever 79, which protrudes into its path.

It will here be necessary to digress and describe certain other features of the mechanism. The lever 79 is fulcrumed at 80 on the lower pendent arm of an upright lever 81, fulcrumed at 82. A suitable spring 83 holds the lever 79, Fig. 6, up against a stop-pin 84: on the lever 81, and a spring 85 holds a stud 86' on the lever 81 up to a shearing-lever 87, fulcrumed at 88 and engaging at its upper end the movable blade 53 of the shears for operating same. On-the operating-rod 19 is carried a pivoted dog 89, which is normally depressed by gravity as far as a stop 90 will permit, but which may be elevated to the position seen in Fig. 7.

The operation is as follows: When the operator shall have cooked the pistol for the fifth time and the stud 71, as seen in Fig. 7, shall have rocked the lever 79, the tail of this lever will uplift and support the dog 89 until it is in position to strike the pendent arm of the shearing-lever 87 at a recess 1 therein. Now when the trigger is pulled and the rod 49 moves forcibly to the left the first effect will be to make the fifth indentation on the souvenir-target. Then the dog 89 will strike the shearing-lever and shear off the souvenir from the strip; but in operating the shearinglever the lower arm of the latter, acting through the stud 86, rocks the lever 81. One effect of this is to draw the end of lever 79 clear from the pin 71, so that this arm of the lever flies up and the other drops, thus letting down the dog 89 or permitting the dog to drop at the next cocking of the pistol. Another effect is to'cause the upper end of the lever 81 to impinge on the heel of the supportingarm 65 below its suspension-point, thereby driving upward its forward end, causing the stud 6 1 to wipe onto the shoulder 63 by flexing its spring. The rise of the arm (35 lifts the pawl 67 up to its first position. (Seen in Fig. 6.)

There is an indicator [on the casing. (Seen in Figs. 6 and 7.) This device comprises a glazed aperture at which normally appears a plate 91, having on it some suitable inscription, such as Turn the knob. This plate is held down out of the range of vision by a light spring 92, but isthrown up and held up normally by an arm 93 of an elbow-lever, lulcrumed at 9%, the other arm 95 of this lever being supported on the arm 65.

hen the souvenir A is sheared ofi, it falls out of the casing through an inclined chute opposite to that shown in Fig. 1. This chute is indicated at C in Figs. 4c and 8.

There may be a guide-shield 96, of thin metal, over the strip S where it passes over the feed-wheel, as seen in Figs. 6 and 7, said shield extending from the guide 51 to the shears.

As the coin or check controlled device is not claimed herein, it will not be necessary to describe it any further than to say that the sliding hook 37 in the lever 36 is drawn out a little by an incline on the stop-pin 97, Fig. 2, and when a coin is dropped into the point 0 it prevents the hook from beingdrawn back by its spring when the lever 36 is depressed, thus compelling its hook to engage the crossbar 38. The coin is released and falls into a suitable receptacle R in the casing.

It will be noted in the drawings that the weight of the marker-arm and marker-disk is counterbalanced by a spring 98, the tension of which is regulable.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim 1. In a target apparatus the combination, with a target, a firearmprovided with universal mountings so that it may be aimed at the target, automatic means for visibly displaying at the target the point aimed at thereon, and automatic means for effecting a permanent record of each shot.

2. In a target apparatus the combination, with a firearm provided with universal mountings so that it may be aimed at the target, of automatic means for visibly displaying at the target the point aimed at thereon, automatic means for effecting a pern'ianent record of a predetermined number of successive shots,and means for separating and detaching said record from the apparatus.

3. In a target apparatus, the combination, with a target, afirearm, a universally-mounted support for said firearm, means for cocking the latter, and an arm 19, movable with firearm in aiming the latter, of a 111arking-point 72 carried by said arm, a strip of souvenir material S having miniature targets marked thereonatintervals,hand operatablemeans for feeding said strip into position in front of the marking-point, means for locking the'stripfeeding mechanism normally, means for .un-

locking said strip-feeding mechanism when the firearm is cooked, and means for operating the marking-pointwhen the firearm is discharged.

4. In a target apparatus, the combination, with a target, a firearm provided with universal mountings so that it may be aimed at the target, and means for cooking the firearm, of a feed-wheel52, provided with aknob for rotating said wheel by hand, a souvenir-strip S, fed by said wheel, an arm 19 carried by the support of the firearm and movable therewith in aiming, a marking-point 72, for -marking the souvenir-strip, its spring-arm 73, carried by the arm 19, a dog 57, which looks the feedwheel normally, means for shifting said dog to unlock the feed-wheel when the firearm is cocked, means foroperating the markingpoint when the firearm is discharged, and means for cutting a souvenir from the strip when the-firearm is discharged. 7

5. In a target apparatus, the combination, With a target,.- a firearm having universal mountings so that it may be aimed at any part of the target, and means-for cocking said'firearm, of means for producing and detaching asouvenir-record of a predetermined number of successive shots fired, said means compris ing a rocker 16, a spring 17 for rocking the latter whenthe trigger is pulled, the settingrod 13, connecting an'a'rm of said rocker with the firearm, the operating-rod 49, coupled at one end to an arm of said rocker, a pendent arm 7 5 to which the other end of the rod 49 is coupled, an arm '19, carried bythe mounting of the firearm and movable therewithin aiming, a marking-point 72 carried by the arm 19, a block 54: in front of said point, a feedwheel 52,operatable by hand for feeding a strip of souvenir material between the marking- -point and the said block to receive a recordmark, a spring-dog 57, engaging notches in thefeed-wheel to lock it against rotation, a pawl 67 carried by the bar 49 for releasing, the said dog, a hinged supporting-arm 65 for saidpawl, a cam-lever 59 having a head engaging a cam-surface on the feed-wheel and provided with a spring-shoulder supporting the arm 65, a ratchet-wheel 69, to be actuated by the pawl 67, said wheel being provided with studs 71, a pendent lever 81, provided with a stud 86, a lever 79, fulcrumed on the lever 81 with one arm in the' path of the studs 71, shears for cutting a souvenir fromthe strip, a lever 87 for operating said shears and also the lever ,81 and arm 65, a dog 89, carried by the bar 49 and adapted to be lifted into opscreen movable between the marker-disk and the target, and means for actuating the said screen when the pistol is cocked and fired, said means comprising a rocker 16, a setting-rod coupling an arm of said rocker with the disk 10 of the pistol, the spring 17 coupled to the rocker, the arm 25 which actuates the screen, the link coupling said arm to the screen, the limiting-stops 28 for the arm, the lever 29, the spring 27, coupling the arm 25 to one arm of said lever 29, a rod 18, coupled at one end to an arm of the rocker 16, and means connecting the other end of the rod 18 with the lever 29 for rocking the'same.

7. In a target apparatus, the combination with the pistol having a notched disk 10, the trigger engaging said disk, the setting-rod coupled at its upper end to said disk, the rocker 16,to which the setting-rod is coupled at its lower end, the spring 17 coupled to the rocker,

the rod 18 coupled to the rocker, the sleeve 32, provided with an arm 34 coupled to the rod 18, the fulcrumed, lever-like hammer 40, the sounding-plate for the-hammer to strike,

and the arm 43 on the sleeve and coupled to the hammer for actuating the same. In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name, this 16th day of June, 190 i, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN L. MCOULLOUGH. Witnesses:

-HENRY CONNETT,

BENJAMIN H. HOLT. 

